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SAMBA versions and steps to install - Version: 3.0.23rc3, 6/25/2006 10:48PM PST
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MentalColic
Fink SAMBA vs Built-In OS X - Version: 3.0.23rc3, 6/25/2006 10:28PM PST
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MentalColic
I won't get into the "make an installer for me" arguments. These updates are free and we should be grateful for the programmers who keep them current. If you are not advanced enough to run FINK, you have no business trying to update/modify default system files! Wait for Apples next auto updater.
Anyway I do have a question... as I understand it, the FINK SAMBA install does not replace/update the built-in Apple one. It creates a NEW installation of the needed SAMBA files in a different directory. This is where my confusion comes in. How does one get OS X to use the new version instead of it's default old one?
The closest thing I can find (via Google searches) says stuff like, "Install SAMBA via Fink and just modify the appropriate startup files" etc. But nowhere does it say what and where these "appropriate startup files" are!
I am somewhat familiar with UNIX having used some very specialized equipment that had their own flavors of stripped-down UNIX as their OS, so I could follow a tutorial OK. And most people can follow steps even if they don't understand what all of them do.
Perhaps instead of a full installer being programmed etc. a simple 10-12 step "how to" tutorial of what files and parameters need to be changed AFTER Fink installs it's new version would be sufficient.
Then if something doesn't work these few manually done steps could be reversed, and one could go back to using the built-in OS X version with nothing lost but a few MB of drive space.
Any system experts out there that could just jot down their steps and share them after they do their next install/update?
Anyway I do have a question... as I understand it, the FINK SAMBA install does not replace/update the built-in Apple one. It creates a NEW installation of the needed SAMBA files in a different directory. This is where my confusion comes in. How does one get OS X to use the new version instead of it's default old one?
The closest thing I can find (via Google searches) says stuff like, "Install SAMBA via Fink and just modify the appropriate startup files" etc. But nowhere does it say what and where these "appropriate startup files" are!
I am somewhat familiar with UNIX having used some very specialized equipment that had their own flavors of stripped-down UNIX as their OS, so I could follow a tutorial OK. And most people can follow steps even if they don't understand what all of them do.
Perhaps instead of a full installer being programmed etc. a simple 10-12 step "how to" tutorial of what files and parameters need to be changed AFTER Fink installs it's new version would be sufficient.
Then if something doesn't work these few manually done steps could be reversed, and one could go back to using the built-in OS X version with nothing lost but a few MB of drive space.
Any system experts out there that could just jot down their steps and share them after they do their next install/update?
DarwinPorts and Fink - Version: 3.0.20b, 10/13/2005 01:51PM PST
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amcgee
As is usually the case, easy to install versions of this program are available via the Fink and DarwinPorts package management systems. No one should need to compile this by hand, unless you have a very special setup. Fink has version 2.2.12, and DarwinPorts has version 3.0.20.
Also it appears that using FINK or Darwin Ports as the "easy way to install" will actually revert you back to OLDER versions than what is currently in OS X 10.4!
In the case of Fink, the 'new' version it shows is SAMBA 2.x and OS X 10.4 already has version 3.x installed. So if one has to actually download the source and compile it themselves to get the latest updates, does it replace the Built-in OS X version (as "rgerdes" instructions appear to imply) or is it like Fink, a parallel install with some minor configuration file changes needed?
Getting OS X to integrate with Windows networks is VITAL to Macs being accepted in the business world for things other than just desktop publishing. Why isn't he SAMBA updates being supported more by Apple? <sigh> maybe in OS X 10.5...